Hi,
I hadn't been spending much time on encfs over the last few years, ever
since full-disk encryption became fast enough that it was the norm for all
my systems (including cell phones!). However I've become aware of an
increased used as a wrapper on top of cloud storage systems.
Client-side encryption is good for users, by making cloud data less
accessible to misuse. There are now multiple public storage clouds and a
number of middleware components for syncing user data to those clouds. I
believe it is beneficial to users to have inter-operable middleware, so it
is in the best interest of users to make it easier for middleware to
incorporate encfs. With that in mind, I'm planning to ease the licensing
requirements for encfs.
My plan is to modify the license for an upcoming release. Files making up
libencfs would be re-licensed under LGPL (was GPL). The main programs
(encfs, encfsctl) would remain GPL.
The idea is that this would make it easier to incorporate libencfs into
commercial middleware, while still maintaining what I consider the primary
benefit -- that modifications such as a port to a new architecture would be
released as open source.
Comments / concerns?
regards,
Valient
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